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Animal Experiments: Primates
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of a) pain, b) suffering, c) distress and d) lasting harm caused to non-human primates recognised by service licences under Animal
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 22 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 29 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment her Department has made of trends in the level of a) pain, b) suffering, c) distress and d) lasting harm caused to non-human primates recognised by service licences under Animal
29 Apr 2026
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29 Apr 2026
Answer published
All project licence applications, including service licences which use specially protected species such as dogs and non-human primates, are subject to a rigorous harm-benefit analysis (HBA), required under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 (ASP...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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